www.pcworld.com

Foxconn's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. has set up a new research center devoted to display and touch technologies in Japan that could end up hiring staff away from Sharp.The new center, called Foxconn Japan RD Co., represents a major investment for Hon Hai and aims to recruit top...

www.electronista.com

Apple may be turning to another of its partners and away from Foxconn as the primary supplier of some future Apple products, if a report from the Wall Street Journal is correct. The paper reports that Taiwan-based Pegatron, which has a history with Apple that goes back to the original...

www.macrumors.com

Apple is continuing to seek improved supply-chain risk management by shifting more of its manufacturing needs from its longtime partner Foxconn to Pegatron, notes The Wall Street Journal in a new report that suggests Pegatron will be responsible for the assembly of Apple's low cost iPhone.Pegatron Corp., named after the...

gigaom.com

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn, which has been Apple’s biggest and most important manufacturing partner, will see some of its orders from Apple in the future transfered to a competitor. The word is that Apple will be working more closely with Pegatron on the production...

appleinsider.com

Apple is reported to be bolstering ties with partner supplier Pegatron, while at the same time lessening its reliance on manufacturing monolith Foxconn, which up to now has been responsible for producing a bulk of the Cupertino company's devices. ...

www.theverge.com

Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn has become nearly synonymous with Apple's products, but that may not be the case for much longer. According to The Wall Street Journal, Apple is increasingly splitting its manufacturing between Foxconn and little-known company Pegatron. Pegatron was tasked with making a limited number of iPhones and...

9to5mac.com

The Wall Street Journal takes a look at Apple’s continuous shifts and expansion of its Asia-based product suppliers. For several years, Foxconn has been known as the de facto Apple manufacturing partner for iPhones, iPads, iPods and Macs. However, over the past few years, Apple has begun manufacturing certain...

allthingsd.com

For years, nearly all of the world’s iPhones and iPads rolled off the assembly lines of a single company: Foxconn. It was a famous partnership between two outsize personalities — Steve Jobs, Apple Inc.’s intense and mercurial co-founder, and Terry Gou, the Taiwanese manufacturer’s equally demanding chairman. Read the rest...

online.wsj.com

For years, nearly all of the world's iPhones and iPads rolled off the assembly lines of a single company: Foxconn. Now, Apple is dividing its weight more equally with a relatively unknown supplier called Pegatron....